While state laws do little to protect tenants, counties have options — and Albemarle is beginning to consider them

Virginia law does not make it easy for a renter to force a landlord to improve conditions — even hazardous ones

Against all odds, one Park's Edge tenant got a case into court. It didn't go the way she thought it would.

No way out: How Virginia law fails vulnerable renters

Floods, roaches, rats, mold — this is Charlottesville Tomorrow's investigation into how Virginia law often offers few options for renters in dangerous living conditions.